| Description | Brief listing of exhibits and exhibitors at the Royal Society's annual displays at Burlington House, London, with descriptive text. Arranged by rooms. Rooms 1-5 and Ground Floor. Commencing with a note of lantern slide displays taking place at specific times during the evening.
Room 1 (Officers' Room):
1. Dried specimens of Cape plants, from Miss York, exhibited by William Turner Thiselton Dyer, Director, Royal Gardens, Kew.
Room 2 (The Office):
2. Specimens illustrating the evolution of the breeds of English oxen, exhibited by Thomas McKenny Hughes.
3. Illustrations of recurrent vision and retinal oscillations, exhibited by Shelford Bidwell.
4. The Walrand Legenisel process of steel manufacture as applied to steel castings, the Triumph weldless chain, exhibited by George James Snelus.
5. Watercolour sketches in various countries, exhibited by Francis Cranmer Penrose.
6. Shell musical instruments (trumpets and flutes), exhibited by George Harley.
Room 4 (Council Room):
7. Some maps and plans which accompany the Report on Nile Reservoirs, recently published by the Egyptian Government, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
8. Two contact 'makers-and-breakers' for induction coils, exhibited by Sir David Salomons.
9. Sketches of clouds by Luke Howard F.R.S., author of 'The Modifications of Clouds', exhibited by Lady Sophia Fry.
10. A series of drawings of colonies and cultures of bacteria isolated from the Thames, exhibited by Harry Marshall Ward.
11. An instrument of precision for producing monochromatic light of any desired wavelength, exhibited by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton.
12. Modified Hughes's induction balance as arranged with one large primary coil and two secondaries of different sizes for the purpose of testing for the presence of metal of any kind in alleged bullet-proof shields, experiments with rotatory magnetic fields, exhibited by Silvanus Phillips Thompson.
13. Photographs of apparatus used in finding the Newtonian constant of gravitation, specimens of balls and the tools in which they are made, optical compass used for making the horizontal measures, exhibited by Charles Vernon Boys.
Room 5 (Principal Library):
14. Original drawing of the 'Milky Way' made at Birr Castle Observatory, exhibited by Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse.
15. Oil painting of the Moon, painted from actual telescopic observations, exhibited by Sydney Hodges.
16. Wheatstone's automatic transmitter running up to 600 words per minute, driven by Wilmot's air motor, Prof. Hughes' type printing telegraph, driven by Wilmot's air motor, exhibited by Arnold Morley, the Postmaster-General.
17. Case containing models of torpedo boats, light-draft patrol steamer and the 'Thornycroft' water-tube boiler, exhibited by Messrs. John I. Thornycroft & Company.
18. Sonometer for measuring the relative and comparative perception of hearing, exhibited by T. P. Hawksley.
19. Models showing an improved method of communication between shore stations and light-ships or other like purposes, exhibited by James Wimshurst.
20. Twin-elliptical pendulum and pendulum figures, exhibited by Joseph Goold.
21. Antiquities and anthropological objects from the Hadramoot, Southern Arabia, exhibited by James Theodore Bent.
22. The 'Brunsviga' calculating machine for plain figures of decimals, exhibited by Charles Bradbury.
23. Apparatus for obtaining instantaneous photo-micro-graphs, and viewing the image until exposure is made, exhibited by Charles Baker.
24. Living pelagic larvae &c., from Plymouth, examples of Echinoderm fauna of Plymouth, hybrid between Brill and Turbot (North Sea), Sole with an eye on each side of the body, Plaice larvae up to 28 days old reared from eggs hatched at the Plymouth Laboratory, exhibited by the Marine Biological Association.
25. Heating by electricity for hospital purposes, exhibited by Mr. C. T. Snedekor.
26. Compact and sensitive detector for electric radiation, and a speherical radiator of short Hertz waves, exhibited by Oliver Lodge.
27. Series of fourteen photographs with two maps and a geological section illustrating the researches carried on at Lake Callabonna in South Australia for remains of Diprotodon, and other extinct animals in 1893, exhibited by Edward Charles Stirling.
28. Enlarged photographs of the great Sun spot of February 1893 taken at Dehra Dun, exhibited by Joseph Norman Lockyer.
29. Gold-leaf made by electro-deposition, exhibited by Joseph Wilson Swan.
30. A projective goniometer, exhibited by Miss Edna Walter and Mr. H. B. Bourne.
31. Model illustrating the molecular tactics of a quartz crystal, exhibited by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.
32. Original negatives and enlarged photographs of the spiral nebula Messier 74 Piscium, Messier 101 Urssae Majoris, Messier 65 and 66 Leonis, Herschel I 168 Ursae Majoris, Herschel I 56 and 57 Leonis, exhibited by Isaac Roberts.
33. Photographic portrait group of Fellows of the Royal Society, exhibited by Mayall & Company.
34. Models of extinct animals, viz: Megatherium, Dinoceras, and Plesiosaurus, exhibited by Rev. Henry Neville Hutchinson.
35. Locomotion phases in decapod crustacea, mummy cloth of nor later than 4000 B.C., compared with finest Irish linen of today, exhibited by Professor Stewart.
36. Preserved specimens of larvae which have been influenced by the colours of their surroundings, exhibited by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham and Edward Bagnall Poulton.
37. Freaks of the Post Office and its clients, exhibited by Arnold Morley, the Postmaster-General.
38. Specimens of metallic Chromium, Manganese, Tungsten, Iron &c., free from Carbon, also fused Aluminia obtained during the reduction of the metallic samples, exhibited by Claude Vautin.
39. Flint arrowheads from European countries, exhibited by Sir John Evans.
40. Photographs of a splashing drop, exhibited by Arthur Mason Worthington and Mr. R. S. Cole.
41. Photographic prints in the natural colours obtained by printing in three primary colours only (Dr. [Hermann Wilhelm] Vogel's process), exhibited by William Kurtz.
Ground Floor (Archives Room):
42. The telautograph, exhibited by Asa Gray.
Meeting Room:
The following exhibits with demonstrations by means of electric lantern will take place at the times specified.
At 9.45 o'clock.
43. The magic mirror, exhibited by Mr. J. W. Kearton.
At 10.15 o'clock.
44. Illustrations of recent work upon the influence of environment on the colours of certain Lepidopterous larvae, exhibited by Edward Bagnall Poulton.
At 11.0 o'clock.
45. Views of tropical vegetation, exhibited by Daniel Morris.
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